PrintsFrench18th-19th century

Plate LIX

18th-19th century

Artists

Jacques-Francois-Joseph SwebachArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Culture

French

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Provenance

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister. Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

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Note Card for Berthold Calendar 1934

Herbert Bayer, 1934

Photomechanical print in black and green ink on green paper

20th centuryGerman

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An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Kinmō zui)

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, dated 1668

Sixth of a set of fourteen thread-bound woodblock-printed volumes; ink on paper

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Waterfall of Flowers: Caring for the Aged in the Quarter (Hana no taki sato no yoro), from the series Comical Dances of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara niwaka)

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Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

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Homage to Ben Shahn

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20th centuryAmerican

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True View of the Foreign Buildings along the Kaigandōri Seen from the Yokohama Wharves (Yokohama hatoba yori kaigandōri ijinkan no shinzu)

Utagawa Hiroshige III 三代目歌川広重, c. 1875

Woodblock print (nishiki-e) triptych; ink and color on paper

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

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You Are Quite Slow, Young Man

Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet, 1835

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Gimcrack

George Townley Stubbs, March 1, 1775

Mezzotint on off-white laid paper

18th centuryBritish

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Prefabricated Copper Houses, 1931-1932: Building type M3: rafter layout, 1:20

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